Arrange library in a list according to file size?

Hello,
Hopefully a fairly painless one this, but a bit of a bug bear.
If I am looking at my entire iTunes library in list form I can see a number of tabs, I cloud status, time, name, artist etc etc.
I would like to be able to see the file size of each track so that I can delete some of the larger ones.
Is there a way to add the sizing so that I can arrange files via this method?
Appreciate your input folks
Simon

Simon,
Yes. Go to View > View Options, and enable the checkbox for Size. That will create a new column for Size, and if you click on the column header it will sort by Size.
By the way, if you do not see the View menu, you first have to enable the menu bar by using CTRL-B.

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